New Releases from Asia: August 2019
Title: Not Native: Short Stories of Immigrant Life in an In-Between World
Author: Murali Kamma
Publisher: Wising Up Press
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 190 pages
Price: $20 ($15 if using PayPal)
Links if any: www.MuraliKamma.com
About: In this debut collection focusing on Indian immigrants in the United States, characters deal with conflict, growth, dislocation, and renewal in a new world. But their old world is present as well, and this “in-betweenness” shapes their lives. Once immigration involved leaving all behind, assuming a new identity with your new culture. Now we move back and forth — between continents, cities, our different mores no longer tidily compartmentalised, sometimes more migrant than immigrant. Straddling two worlds, the characters in this book are acute observers—and diffident interpreters—of a much larger world that will never feel fully familiar again.